SUNY at Stony Brook - Specula Yearbook (Stony Brook, NY)

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Dedication Stony Brook is a demanding mistress. To love her is to be com- mitted to her future in spite of the anguish of the present, to pursue her elusive affection through the suffocation of red tape, the ooze of mud, the morphia of apathy. We, her suitors, pledge four years of our lives to her. Some of us work with her, some of us work for her, and some of us simply work. She is a wily and unpredictable mis- tress who balks at change and will unexpectedly turn on her lovers. In a fit of anger she will destroy our work and reward us with bitter- ness and disillusion. But some lovers are bewitched. They go forward undaunted by her fits of reiection. They are dedicated. They must make her realize her potential and their dreams for her future. Each strives to imprint his mark on her, but generations pass every four years and the legends die. Yet, when they leave, each of her suitors carries Stony Brook with him as lovers carry scars, forever. Others work beneath the surface and deal person-to-person with Stony Brook's complexities, giving freely of themselves and reaping the profits of disdain and frustration. When they personally believe that they are right in the way they performed their duties, their mistress responds with contempt. She feels they are useless and tosses them aside with disgust. Yet some still cling to her with devo- tion and try to fight their way back into her favor. She will not have them. There are those who love in silence, who serve their mistress in a narrow sphere. They can work in an office, live in an overcrowded dorm, tape fliers to her walls, mop the lobbies. Nonetheless, they are branded by their devotion for being inconspicuous. For service to the University, SPECULA 1969 is dedicated to all those who cared enough to devote their time and effort.

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